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Holding Up The Sky Together
- Unpacking the National Narrative about People with Intellectual Disabilities
Engelsk Paperback
Holding Up The Sky Together
- Unpacking the National Narrative about People with Intellectual Disabilities
Engelsk Paperback

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Even as kindness toward individuals with intellectual disabilities has increased, encountering an individual and his or her family whose lives revolve around the daily challenges that come with them is atypical, or is experienced and narrated as such, particularly by the media. Even when there is progress, making such a leap provides rhetorical cover, or at least a distraction, while intolerance regroups. And for some, it becomes less about showing love and compassion than about being able to pat oneself on the back when an interaction with a person like our son Neil is over.

But it’s why they don’t know, or are curious but reluctant to engage, or just flat out lack empathy, that compelled us to write this book. Contributing to their misimpressions and misanthropy are portrayals of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the mass media, scant though they are. We should always be skeptical of those in my line of work who argue that the onslaught of information we take in from a widened array of sources can magically change our behavior – the so-called “hypodermic needle” theory of media effects. But these messages do help us craft our realities and develop and share our own narratives about folks with intellectual disabilities.

Holding Up the Sky Together is admittedly a hybrid: part memoir, part academic analysis—a professor with more than 30 published articles and four books, all of which revolve around media analysis, looks inward. But our fervent hope is to inject a bit more realism into the national dialogue about intellectual disabilities. We are grateful for increased awareness and tolerance, for Special Olympics, and for shows like Born This Way. But there is so much more to be done.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
194
ISBN-13:
9780761870029
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0761870024
Udg. Dato:
30 nov 2017
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
University Press of America
Oplagsdato:
30 nov 2017
Forfatter(e):
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